Dan Quinn, Psy.D. (Project Manager, Leadership and Team Consultant) received his doctorate in psychology from The Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, where he now teaches Organizational and Group Interventions. He focuses his consulting practice on project management, leadership coaching, team-building, conflict mediation and performance optimization. He specializes in the psychology of group dynamics and over the past 30 years has led organizational teambuilding processes, week-long communication skills retreats, assertiveness trainings, customer service skills workshops, weekend personal growth retreats for men, and ongoing weekly groups for executives, salespeople, physicians and others. Dr. Quinn was CEO of a high-tech consulting firm during the dot-com years, where he consulted to management in global companies and hospitals on the fusion of technology with corporate goals to improve work culture and customer relationships. His team created one of the first internet-based electronic medical records (nominated by Sybase for a Smithsonian Technology Achievement award), and invented and built software packages for a variety of industries, including healthcare and manufacturing. He is also a graduate of The College of Hard Knocks, where he worked as an actor, director, journalist, high school teacher, highway flagman, short-order cook, nurse's aide, house painter and cab driver.

pro • ject

1. an enterprise carefully planned to achieve a particular aim.
2. extend outwards beyond something else.